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Welcome. My name is Vivian Schiller and the executive director of aspen digital of the Aspen Institute program really glad you could be with us today. The York Times Bestseller list can often seem to be a near untimely or of the national psyche. As such this year seems to reflect a nation going through and awaking of matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists. Both fiction and nonfiction prayed that is the good news. Sadly, the Publishing Industry does not necessarily always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest has back publishing paid and exposed a major pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. There are few people of color who serve as publishing ....
People should read. Whether or not you haveer and tiers or experience on this extremely important subject. Gun violence, american violence, global violence. And so id like to actually just begin with the title. Violence inside us. And the early portion of the book where you take the reader through something of a short primer on the biology and the history of violence, and so i wanted to ask you, why begin there . Why did you choose to begin with the nature of violence itself. Guest well, thank you for doing this and really glad to toe be joining you to talk about the book. I start with this question of what kind of violence is inside us, because for me it was the first real thorny question that i came upon when i began what has become the new mission of my political career. Maybe well have a chance to talk about this a little built but while the book is mostly a history of american violence and a conversation about how we overcome that history, it also involves my own political story. ....